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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2021
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Wen-Shu Chen, Taipei, TW;
Kuo-Cyuan Kuo, Hsinchu County, TW;
I-Ta Chen, New Taipei, TW;
Chih-Chiang Chen, Taichung, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for performing access management of a memory device in predetermined communications architecture with aid of flexible delay time control and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: utilizing at least one upper layer controller of a transmission interface circuit within the memory controller to dynamically set a delay parameter regarding transmission from the memory device to a host device, for preventing sleeping in delay time(s) corresponding to the delay parameter; utilizing a physical layer (PHY) circuit of the transmission interface circuit to transmit first data from the memory device to the host device, wherein a first delay time starts from a first time point at which transmitting the first data from the memory device to the host device is completed; and utilizing the PHY circuit to start transmitting second data from the memory device to the host device in the first delay time without restarting from sleeping.